Hey Tom,
> That said, I believe that the patch is not ideal. Assuming that PCRE is not
> installed when building on Mac is bad behavior. Ideally the configuration
> script would check for the presence of the library. But until that is
> implemented (if ever), this patch is probably the best solution.
You're misreading the patch - it just skips the check to see if PCRE
is available without any additional -L / -I options, it will still do
all the checks to see if PCRE is available in /usr/local, /opt/local
and all other common prefixes...
In short, it compiles nginx with PCRE on OSX, without requiring user
to do the "configure" work by hand.
Best regards,
Piotr Sikora